In an interview with Rugby World magazine, Gloucester man Moriarty, one of the success stories of Wales’ summer tour to New Zealand, said: “I’ve got the family crest on my shoulder and a quote from the poem The Indispensable Man on my bicep: ‘Do just the best that you can, be proud of yourself, but remember there is no indispensable man’.

“My grandfather gave the poem to my dad before he played for Wales and then he gave it to me.

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“I was at a friend’s house so his dad took me to the hospital. When we were driving up the road, my dad was driving the opposite way so he followed us and he had to sign papers to say if they had to take (off) the arm in surgery they could.

“Luckily it worked out and four operations later the arm was alright.

“I also fell down a ravine in France. I was about 13 or 14 on a skiing holiday and it gave my mother a fright. Luckily another skier who was following jumped over and somehow got me out.”

* Read the full interview in the September issue of Rugby World magazine - on sale on Tuesday